At present, the CBC Radio 3 team sits in offices at the CBC "bunker" in Vancouver as demolition rages around us. Crews are working loudly and feverishly to create new condos attached to our downtown location, as well as completely renovating our decades-old concrete bomb shelter.

The very first time I ever entered this bizarre, extremely dated structure was when I was seven years old, in grade two, on a day time field trip tour of CBC. We walked through the various hallways seeing how it all worked, and when we finally all arrived back in the lobby, our path crossed greatness. There before us was a bonafide Canadian television star... Mr. Jackson Davies, the young, bald, hilariously befuddled cop from the world-renowned show The Beachcombers. Of course he wasn't wearing his RCMP costume at the time, so when he asked the class "who can tell me what character I play on the Beachcombers?" I immediately shot up my hand.

"Yes, you, the one in the back that looks like a cross between Woody Allen and Urkel?"

"You are the policeman!" I shrieked through a nasal cavity stuffed with snot.

"That's right, little nerd! I am the policeman! Step forward!"

I pushed through my classmates and stood side by side with the great Mr. Jackson Davies. He put his warm hand on my shoulder and said "you know what, kid, you may be an outrageous geek now, but you may just have a future in this place".

Thank god my parents allowed me to watch a show that came on right after "Disney" on CBC, the entire premise of which was a Greek guy who drove a beat up boat around Howe Sound in British Columbia salvaging logs with his First Nations buddy.

This past weekend while riding a BC Ferry through those very coastal waters, I ran into Mr. Jackson Davies seated with his wife and was able to interrupt their conversation, and, after these many years, let him know that his off-the-cuff soothsaying was correct. Thank god for rock ‘n' roll radio! Mr. Jackson Davies and his wife are fantastic people. Thanks to Chris Kelly for capturing the moment. Let's relive the magic of The Beachcombers right now.